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<font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US">Call for
Papers:</span></b></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US"> </span></font>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US"> </span></font></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US">Symposium:
‘Breaking Boundaries:
Alternative Approaches to Japanese Film’</span></font></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US">Date:
November 6<sup>th</sup>,
2010</span></font></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US">Venue:
ICS Cinema, University of Leeds, UK<br></span></font></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US"> </span></font></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US">Keynote
Speaker: Tony Rayns (film
critic and programmer of East Asian cinema)<br></span></font></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US"> </span></font></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US">Screening:
‘Children of the
Beehive’ (Shimizu, 1948) courtesy of Zipangu Fest (</span></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.zipangufest.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">http://www.zipangufest.com</span></a></span></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US">).</span></font></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US"> </span></font></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US">The
event has been coordinated as
part of the 24<sup>th</sup> Leeds International Film Festival (4-21 Nov
2010).
For more information on the film festival, please visit </span></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.leedsfilm.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">www.leedsfilm.com</span></a></span></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US">.</span></font></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US"> </span></font></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US">Please
note that selected papers
will be considered for publication in a special issue of <i style="">Journal
of Japanese and Korean Cinema</i>, edited by David Desser and
published by Intellect. For more information on the journal, please
visit: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=157/</span></font></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><br><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US"></span></font></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US">For more information, please check: http://www.mixedcinemanetwork.org/node/80<br></span></font></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US"> </span></font></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US">-------------------------------------------</span></font></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US"> </span></font></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: black;" lang="EN-US">No other region
is expected to have a
more profound impact on the future global system and society than East
Asia,
and accordingly, understanding the culture and arts of the countries in
this
region is becoming increasingly vital to the work of academics. Japanese
cinema,
in particular, has recently experienced a resurgence of interest within
and
beyond academic confines. In the UK, recent major retrospectives of
directors
such as Nagisa Oshima, Yasujiro Ozu and Akira Kurosawa organized by the
British
Film Institute, among many other events across the country, have
contributed to
an increased awareness of this burgeoning subject area. The number of
Hollywood
remakes of Japanese texts and films and the recent trend of Western
directors
travelling to Tokyo to shoot their films are also indicative of an
interest
which cuts across theory and practice<b>. </b>It seems particularly
timely to
discuss the ways in which we can address Japanese cinema and its
relevance to
world cinema, film studies and other disciplines.</span></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US"></span></font></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US"> </span></font></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US">‘Breaking
Boundaries’ is an
inter-institutional project organized by postgraduate students at the
universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York through the Mixed Cinema
Network project
(www.mixedcinemanetwork.org) and beyond. Our aim is to propose
alternative approaches
to Japanese cinema, moving beyond East-West binary oppositions, thus
encouraging the exploration of new and exciting critical avenues.</span></font></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US"> </span></font></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US">Although
all proposals will be
considered, we particularly welcome papers that explore the following
themes we
have set up as panels:</span></font></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US"> </span></font></p>
<p class="ecxMsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -18pt;"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><span style="font-family: Symbol;" lang="EN-US"><span style="">·<span style="">
</span></span></span></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US">Japanese
Cinema
Within and Beyond the Nation</span></font></p>
<p class="ecxMsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -18pt;"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><span style="font-family: Symbol;" lang="EN-US"><span style="">·<span style="">
</span></span></span></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US">Interdisciplinarity
and
Intertextuality in Japanese Cinema</span></font></p>
<p class="ecxMsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -18pt;"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><span style="font-family: Symbol;" lang="EN-US"><span style="">·<span style="">
</span></span></span></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US">Questions
of
Gender in Japanese Film</span></font></p>
<p class="ecxMsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent: -18pt;"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><span style="font-family: Symbol;" lang="EN-US"><span style="">·<span style="">
</span></span></span></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US">Reception
of
Japanese Films Home and Abroad</span></font></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US"> </span></font></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US">We
welcome proposals from
researchers at any stage of their project, and we will accept proposals
from
those within and beyond the academic field of film studies. Please send a
400-word abstract and 150-word biography to: </span></font></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US"> </span></font></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:bbconf2010@googlemail.com"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">bbconf2010@googlemail.com</span></a></span></font></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><br></font></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: black;" lang="EN-US">For those of
you who responded to our previous call for papers - your proposals are
still valid but if you would like to revise and re-submit that is also
fine. </span></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><br></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:bbconf2010@googlemail.com"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></a></span></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US"></span></font></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US"> </span></font></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US">The
deadline for application is September 20<sup>th</sup>
2010.</span></font></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US"><br></span></font></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US">We look forward to hearing
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